Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with 8Homes?? 15May 17, 2013 12:36 am meowsy Does anyone know if you can actually view some of the upgrades and get an idea of how much it is all going to cost you? I know you have to pay for the colour consultant to go through that process. Hi, Yea during the appointment, you see everything that you can upgrade and they'll tell you the cost of it all, so by the end you'll know how much you're spending which is good. You'll be able to take samples home too. Any idea what you wanted to upgrade? Re: Building with 8Homes?? 16May 17, 2013 12:37 am Oh, btw I'm building in Oak Gardens, Keysborough =D Re: Building with 8Homes?? 17May 19, 2013 6:13 am Hi purple_le24, It's so exciting to see someone else is building the D-Three, we will have to keep in touch during our builds and compare notes It sounds like we upgraded similar things, we added the internal entry door from garage also, a sliding door between the kitchen and WIP, a large sliding door to the theartre room and also a sliding door between the main bedroom and WIR as well as upgrading the alfresco sliding door to a stacker door. We also upgraded both WIR's to mimic the Mernda display. Hubby is a chef so we upgraded to the full length of the kitchen bench in the Mernda display, I did like the idea of an island bench and only doing a partial upgrade to make it longer like yourself but hubby wanted the whole 9 yards so i let him win that battle Being a chef he also wanted pot draws so that was another upgrade and the kitchen/bathroom cabinetry we upgraded to a semi gloss also which was Category 3 i think. We added a split system to the meals/family area, added overhead cupboards to the laundry and after much umming and arghing we decided for the sake of our forever home we would cough up a little extra cash and upgrade the stairs as well. We upgraded to the open cut stairs like the Mernda display, but instead of the glass we have just gone for stainless steel barristades which was much cheaper! Upstairs we upgraded to a double vanity in the ensuite and extended the shower to 900x900, we would have loved a seperate toilet but unfortunately it then wouldn't fit. Also in the main bathroom, we had added the seperate toilet with our sales guy BUT when we got to our contract appointment we were told that we couldn't have it as it wouldn't fit due to a void being located in the bathroom corner where the sales guy had drawn the seperate toilet. Damn...i wish i had fought for it more as from reading your post it seems you have been given the green light... Have you started building yet? We are locked in to start on Friday but that seems wishful thinking as the last thing i heard they didn't quite have the building permits yet either :s Once they get them they still need to pass this onto our bank to approve the first payment prior to Friday - seems unlikely??? Hopefully if we don't start on Friday it should only be a few days later - we can not wait to start Building the D-Three with 8homes at Warralily Re: Building with 8Homes?? 18May 19, 2013 5:58 pm Hi Hutchy13, Firstly, wow...you did a fair bit extra upgrade which is great. I tried to keep costs to a minimum lol but great idea with the stair case upgrade. I really loved the Mernda glass stair case but it was going to cost approx. $20k for that stair case so I thought, I'll keep it standard and change it myself later down the track via private builder/tradie. Good on the hubby for wanting the extra bench space which is so worth the upgrade! I didn't need all that space so I just wanted the partial upgrade and took me a lot of heartache to do. I can't believe they didn't allow you to do the separate toilet/bathroom. My sales person said it was do-able and that the architecture will do drawings to meet it somehow. So the new drawings just shows the bathtub extra moved around to cater for the toilet. You've mentioned you upgraded the sliding door to the alfresco area to a stacker...as in like the display at Mernda? French doors right? I was told we couldn't do that or I think it was quite dear, I forgot. But yes, that will be very nice =) OK, next thing I want to mention to all 8Homes purchaser, not sure when you guys signed up and what base price it was at that time BUT have you noticed lately that the base price have gone down $8000 across most of their homes? I was so shocked, upset etc so I emailed headoffice on Thursday to ask whether they can give me the new base price deal. I went to a sales office today to see what the current promo is which is still the lifestyle pack which just gone up by $1,000 totally to $12,990 now as oppose to the $11,990 previosly but since the base price gone down $8,000 it would still be better off to transfer over or cancel and start again. I signed my contract late last year but still waiting for my land to title so haven't started anything as yet so I'm seeing if I can transfer over. Hopefully good news next week when I hear something. It's so hard to communicate with 8homes when it's all via email and they take a couple of days to reply. That's it from me, thought I'll mention that cause it's now even more of a bargain to purchase and build with 8homes. Good luck with your site start Hutchy13 and definitely keep in touch! Re: Building with 8Homes?? 19May 25, 2013 3:57 pm Wow, i am glad i came across your post regarding your upgrades purple_le24 because i then questioned 8homes about why we couldn't have the seperate WC to the main bathroom and they have now decided we can It will mean the upstairs WIL will be smaller to accommodate for having the void in there instead of the bathroom but that's a small sacrifice for the sake of a little toilet privacy I loved the Mernda staircase too but ours already cost about $7500 and i couldn't justify another $10000 just the glass so we sacrificed there. It is a good idea you have though about changing it down the track - it will probably work out cheaper for you too. Our alfresco door isn't quite as grand as the Mernda display, it's still just a sliding door but we have paid like an extra $800 to turn it into a stacker door. So instead of having the 1 panel that slides back into the other, it will have 3 panels which 2 of them will slide back into the remaining 1 meaning when we open the door it will be wider. Definitely the french doors would have been well and trully out of our price range so we didn't even bother. Thankfully we just signed up in April and at that stage the D-Three already had the promotional $8,000 off it (probably helped us justify spending extra on the upgrades?) I'm sure they should be able to transfer you across to the new deal though, it seems only fair and if you were to cancel and start again (saving you money still) it will create more work for 8homes, re-doing paperwork etc, so it makes sense that they just allow you to switch to the current pricing. Let me know how you go though and my fingers are crossed for you Our new site start is scheduled for Friday, yup this Friday coming - EXCITING! Can you tell i can't wait? I can't wait to start seeing the progress of the build, hopefully they stay on schedule because i would love to be in by Christmas When is your land due to title? Hopefully it's not too far away for you! Building the D-Three with 8homes at Warralily Re: Building with 8Homes?? 20May 26, 2013 10:31 pm Hi Hutchy13, So happy for you that managed to get the separate bathroom/toilet, which is great. I did the same upgrade with the sliding doors too for the alfresco. That's good that you were able to get the new promo, I think its a great bargain at the moment with 8Homes, price drop across most of their houses plus they have the lifestyle package which is pretty much all you need. Well, I'll update you on how it goes whether I'll be able to benefit in the new price changes... Wow, so jealous that ur site start is this Friday! Good luck and all the best. It will be great if you can move in by Christmas, how exciting indeed!! Keep in touch and update me on your progress as you go =) Love hearing all these stories... Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11797 Elvis has left the building... The site supervisor quit after 2 month on the project. I guess he was just instructed to bark at people, but didn't like when he was… 26 21560 |